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  • A: Zoologists now have solid evidence that monogamous pairs of animals are not always sexually exclusive.

    Asking Stupid Questions « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting 2009

  • Zoologists were once geographically split about whether pandas were bears, as the missionary had assumed and a Danish zoologist contended, or whether they should be classified with raccoons and red or lesser pandas, as was urged by the Paris zoologist, backed by a British one who proved lastingly influential upon the entire English-speaking scientific world.

    China's Cuddly Emissaries Judith Martin 2011

  • "Zoologists survived the siege: they knew how to catch rats and pigeons," the author notes.

    A City That Survived Joshua Rubenstein 2011

  • Zoologists call this "the handicap principle of selection".

    Arsène Wenger's goalkeeping blindspot is simply bananas Harry Pearson 2010

  • Zoologists use ‘chelonians’ for all these animals, turtles, tortoises and terrapins, whichever version of English we speak.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Zoologists recognized homology in pre-Darwinian times, and pre-evolutionists would describe, say, bat wings and human hands as homologous.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Zoologists have recently discounted the notion that lobsters feel no pain when boiled alive.

    Hard to Swallow 2007

  • Zoologists have traditionally divided the vertebrates into classes: major divisions with names like mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Zoologists tested these ideas in the songs of crickets, in the spots on stickleback fish, in the throat pouches of fence lizards.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Zoologists have recently discounted the notion that lobsters feel no pain when boiled alive.

    Hard to Swallow 2007

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